Associate Professor Shahid Ullah
Associate Professor in Biostatistics
College of Medicine and Public Health
Shahid has been with the College of Medicine and Public Health since 2019. Prior to this, he has held academic appointments in biostatistics at Flinders University, South Australia Health and Medical Research Institute, Federation University and the University of Dhaka. He received his PhD in Applied Statistics from Monash University.
Shahid has been successful in his previous research and he brings an excellent skill for collaboration and consultancies with leading researchers and scientists through actively involved statistical modelling and methodology as well as facilitating teaching and contributing to research. He supervises honours, masters and PhD students. He publishes in top ranking journals. His research activities have been disseminated in 143 peer reviewed publications and awarded over $4 millions in collaborative research grants as the named Chief Investigators.
His current research involves statistical and epidemiological methodology and modelling, joint modelling approach for survival and longitudinal data, geospatial analysis, and functional data analysis for time series forecasting.
Bachelor of Science (Honours) Statistics
Masters Statistics
PhD Applied Statistics
- MRFF RCRDUN-COVID-19 Grant 2021-2023 ($973,114) (CI): 3D-printed facial guards to reduce P2/N95 respirator leak and protect health care workers from COVID-19.
- MRFF Dementia Ageing and Aged Care Grant 2021-2023 ($1,400,000) (CI): Creating partnership in iSupport program to optimise carers' impact on dementia care.
- National Foundation for Australia-China Relations Competitive Grant 2021-2023 ($400,000) (CI) Strengthening professional collaboration in dementia caregiver education and research via the provisionn and evaluation of the iSupport program in Australia and Greater China.
- DCRC World Class Research Grant 2021-2023 ($536,584) (CI): Strengthing partnership with carers through innovative delivery of an iSupport program.
- Diabetes SA Grant 2021-2024 ($300,000) (CI): Australian lifestyle change program to prevent or delay type 2 diabetes amongst a high-risk propulation (AUS 2 Prevent).
- Channel 7 Children't Research Foundation Grant 2021-2021 ($100,000) (CI): Linking homeless children and their families to community health and wellbeing services: using a nurse practitioner model of care to improve child health outcomes.
- Flinders Foundation Health Seed Grant 2021-2021 ($21,650) (CI): Understanding out-of-pocket health expenditure impacts on Aboriginal families.
- Flinders University Innovation Partnership Seed Grant 2020-2021 ($15,000) (CI): Development of cross-culture care skills in aged care staff to improve resident choice and control over care services.
Education, consultation and collaboration
My 20 years of teaching responsibilities include statistics, biostatistics, epidemiology and demography from first year to masters level for both small and large classes in Australia and overseas. My current teaching responsibilities include biostatistics to undergraduate and post graduate students within the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences at Flinders University. I also taught biostatistics at Federation University School of Health Sciences, Monash University Biostatistics Unit, Dhaka University Institute of Statistical Research and Training, Government and non-Government organizations.
Shahid is currently the Branch President Representative of the Statistical Society of Australia and has been serving the society for almost 6 years as a President, Vice President, and Council Member of the SSA SA branch.
Shahid is an statistical editor for the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition and Experimental Results and statistical reviewer for the Journal of Advanced Nursinbg. He is also an Editorial Member for the Journal of Biomedical Analytics. Shahid has been reviewing more than 150 manuscripts across 20 different journals.
- Statistics
I am extremely proficient in R, S-Plus, STATA and SPSS. I have working knowledge on MLWiN, MPlus and SAS.
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